UTS: Design, Architecture & Building

UTS Photography and Situated Media Competition

UTS is on the search for the next generation of photographers and situated media designers.

Three prizes (totalling $2000) will be awarded to the best photographers and situated media designers currently studying Year 11 or 12.

Submit your entries by 5pm, Friday 23 July 2010. Finalists will have their work exhibited at UTS and the winners will be announced in mid-August.

What are we looking for?

• Original work that makes a social, cultural or personal comment
• Projects that redefine and/or combine the disciplines of photography and situated media
• Quality, conceptual clarity, technical ability and originality

While photography is an established discipline, situated media can be defined in many ways: site-specific installations, performances or interactive media that respond to their environment or location. This type of work could be classified as art, performance, architecture, technology, interaction, media design, etc. Look up the work of Olafur Eliasson, Casey Reas, Cindy Sherman, Nam June Paik, Anish Kapoor, John Maeda, Gordon Matta-Clark. Use your imagination and get to work!

Submission requirements

Submissions are limited to one original photograph. For situated media designers, we suggest creating a single photographic composition that conveys the nature of your original situated media installation.

Digital image specifications

• no larger than 1920 x 1200 pixels
• image may be landscape, portrait, panorama or in a different ratio, with the longest edge 1920px
• 72dpi (300 dpi image must be available on request to prevent disqualification)
• JPG file type and RGB colour format
• File size maximum 3 Mb
• Labelled as "Surname_firstname.jpg"

Camera specifications

Your image should be captured with a 6MP camera or greater in RAW or highest quality JPEG format. An 8-10MP camera or above will produce a superior result.

Finalists

Up to 10 finalists will be selected for exhibition at UTS. Finalists will required to supply an A3 image (42cm x 29.7cm), TIF format at 300dpi. The exhibited image can be landscape or portrait with the longest side equal to 42cm.

For situated media designers, if it is possible to exhibit your actual work at UTS, please include information that is as specific as possible about technical (hardware/software/materials) and spatial requirements, as well as what you could contribute to a presentation of your work and what would need to be provided by UTS. We will endeavour to exhibit finalists' works where possible and may supply standard multimodal display tools, e.g. data projection, monitor, some game/motion controllers, computer, etc. If we can't, then the image documentation of finalists' works will be exhibited.

Judging criteria

Find out more about the Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media course.